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March 16-18, Madrid, Spain
March 23-28, Croydon, London, UK
March 30, Kortrijk, Belgium
May 4-8, Aspen, CO, USA
May 4-8, Toronto, Canada
C++ Meetup with Bjarne Stroustrup
May 9, Florence, Italy
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By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 22, 2016 01:31 PM | Tags: c++11 basics
Always auto? Almost!
Aaargh! AAA – Right Good and Hygenic
by Stephen Kelly
From the article:
The idea of almost-always-
autohas been around for a few years and has fairly divided the C++ community. The effective result is that concrete types appear rarely in code, and variables are declared as ‘auto’ instead....
By pfultz2 | Mar 18, 2016 10:25 AM | Tags: boost advanced
Paul Fultz II talked at C++Now 2015 about generic programming.
Modern generic programming using the Tick and Fit libraries
By Paul Fultz II
From the abstract:
C++ templates provide a very powerful abstraction for generic programming. Even so, they still suffer from long and confusing compile errors and this puts an extra burden of complexity on library writers who want to provide flexibility in their interfaces. In this talk, we will first discuss the importance of concept-based type requirements in code in order to produce clear compile errors, and how the Tick library can be used to specify and check those type requirements.
Later, we will discuss how the Fit library can further enhance generic programming. The Fit library provides many abstractions over functions including a way to do sophisticated overloading in a simple and concise manner. We will discuss in this talk how we can leverage these abstractions with overloading to provide simple and flexible interfaces. We will also look at comparison of these solutions with the Concepts Lite proposal and Boost.ConceptCheck.
slides: here
By Blog Staff | Mar 18, 2016 07:42 AM | Tags: None
Fresh from JetBrains:
CLion 2016.1 released: Better language support and new dev tools
by Anastasia Kazakova
Some C++-specific highlights from the announcement:
This release brings long-awaited support for variadic templates (C++11). With the related fixes in the function overload resolution, this makes it possible to resolve the code correctly and avoid many false positives in code analysis. This also means that Qt C++11 connect calls are resolved correctly in CLion:
Auto-import has been improved greatly for symbols from STL, and the quick documentation popup (Ctrl+Q on Linux/Windows, F1 on OS X) now shows lambda expressions, namespace aliases and explicit instantiation, as well as accurately redirecting hyperlinks:
By robwirving | Mar 18, 2016 07:38 AM | Tags: None
Episode 49 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Dori Exterman to discuss parallel computing strategies and Incredibuild.
CppCast Episode 49: Parallel Computing Strategies with Dori Exterman
by Rob Irving and Jason Turner
About the interviewee:
An expert software developer and product strategist, Dori Exterman has 20 years of experience in the software development industry. As Chief Technical Officer of IncrediBuild, he directs the company's product strategy and is responsible for product vision, implementation, and technical partnerships. Before joining IncrediBuild, Dori held a variety of technical and product development roles at software companies, with a focus on architecture, performance and advanced technologies. He is an expert and frequent speaker on technological advancement in development tools specializing in Embarcadero (formerly Borland) environments, and manages the Israeli development forum for these tools.
By Jason Turner | Mar 14, 2016 09:28 AM | Tags: None
Episode 2 of C++ Weekly With Jason Turner. In this video Jason discusses and analyzes the cost of accessing static variables in C++
The Cost of Using Statics
by Jason Turner
By Marco Arena | Mar 14, 2016 01:02 AM | Tags: c++14 basics
In this new post on Competitive Programming I explain some common idioms to deal with input and output:
C++ in Competitive Programming: I/O
by Marco Arena
From the article:
Very rarely I had to switch to C functions (e.g. scanf) or turn off the synchronization between C++ streams and standard C streams...
By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 13, 2016 02:38 PM | Tags: community c++14
A new improved version:
libsigc++ 3.0: Very variadic
by Murray Cumming
From the article:
[...] With around 150 commits, I gradually refactored libsigc++ to use variadic templates with C++14 [...] there is now only 27% as much code.
By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 13, 2016 02:33 PM | Tags: community c++14
A new version of the compiler:
Clang 3.8 released
by the LLVM Team
By Blog Staff | Mar 11, 2016 04:35 PM | Tags: None
A comprehensive trip report from the just-concluded ISO C++ meeting:
Trip report: Winter ISO C++ standards meeting
by Herb Sutter
From the article:
On March 5, the ISO C++ committee completed its winter meeting in Jacksonville, FL, USA. We had record-tying attendance, with over 110 experts officially representing eight national bodies. As usual, we met for six days Monday through Saturday, and around the clock from 8:30am till 10pm most days, after which many people still went back to hang out in the lobby or their rooms to update papers. — The hotel had a baby grand piano outside the main meeting room lobby, and so late at night you could often walk by and find one of several committee members playing a tune, while as usual people collaborated on their proposals, perched on couches and tables clustered around glowing rectangles, incanting standardese to the soft strains of Russian folk ballads and arena rock.
Here’s a summary of what happened, with some details about the current ISO C++ process so you can see just how the work is progressing and getting released. I’ve tried to add some links to the relevant feature design papers, or to the papers that summarize what was done which in turn usually carry more links to the design papers...
By robwirving | Mar 11, 2016 10:56 AM | Tags: None
Episode 48 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Arne Mertz to discuss Clean Coding techniques.
CppCast Episode 48: Clean Code with Arne Mertz
by Rob Irving and Jason Turner
About the interviewee:
Arne is a Software Engineer at Zühlke Engineering, a blogger and a clean code enthusiast. He has been maintaining and developing large financial C++ applications for several years. Arne has a diploma in physics and has written some scientific code for his degree courses in Fortran77 and C++ before he started his programming career. Currently he is broadening his view on the software development world by doing test automation, integration, requirements engineering and tooling for a large Java/JavaScript web application. To keep in touch with C++ he continues to write about it on his blog, reads other blogs and watches videos of conference talks.
In his free time he sings in a choir together with his wife and enjoys playing video games. He likes to travel a lot, especially tall ship sailing.
